25.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?

[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.

[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.

[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

[D]Jack London and O’Henry.

26.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of     and heredity.

[A]fate                                            [B]morality

[C]social conventions                [D]environment

27.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as    in his fiction.

[A]the evil in man’s heart         [B]the material pursuit

[C]the racial conflict                [D]the social inequality

28.          provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.

[A]The puritan heritage

[B]Howells’ ideas of realism

[C]Darwin’s theory of evolution

[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west

29.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that      .

[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate

[B]there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck

[C]Huck is always an indecisive person

[D]Huck has very little education

30.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?

[A]Fragmentation and alienation.

[B]Courage and honor.

[C]Tradition and faith.

[D]Poverty and desperation.

31.Whitman’s   poems are characterized by all the following features except    .

[A]a strict poetic form

[B]a simple and conversational language

[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern

[D]an easy flow of feelings

32.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly    .

  [A]prolific                         [B]artistic.

[C]optimistic                            [D]pessimistic